{"id":7538,"date":"2004-04-07T07:22:56","date_gmt":"2004-04-07T07:22:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2004\/04\/do_your_job.html"},"modified":"2004-04-07T07:22:56","modified_gmt":"2004-04-07T07:22:56","slug":"do_your_job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2004\/04\/do_your_job.html","title":{"rendered":"Do your job!"},"content":{"rendered":"

..or don’t.<\/p>\n

There is a burgeoning situation in the Archdiocese of New York in which a pastor of a parish has resigned rather than comply with Cardinal Egan’s order to reinstate school administrators and teachers he maintained were responsible for a)mishandling funds and b)not teaching the Catholic faith (60% of children in the school failed a standardized religious-knowledge assessment). The entire parish council has resigned as well. This has not yet hit the press, but Fr. Wilson has blogged on it at CWN<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Update<\/strong> It’s started hitting the papers. Newsday, here.<\/a><\/p>\n

A Roman Catholic pastor resigned this week after objecting to what he called anti-Catholic teachings and bookkeeping problems at his Manhattan parish \u2014 and the eight-member lay parish council went with him \u2014 in a Holy Week protest aimed at the Archdiocese of New York.<\/p>\n

The Rev. Charles Murr told parishioners Monday that he was leaving the Church of St. Francis de Sales on East 96th Street because Cardinal Edward Egan blocked his plan to shake up the school’s staff.<\/p>\n

Archdiocesan spokesman Joseph Zwilling said Murr wanted to replace the principal, assistant principal and a large number of the teaching staff at St. Francis de Sales School & St. Lucy School Academy. “Such a high turnover rate was not what was best for the school or the students,” Zwilling said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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